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SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

It appears Google has made some serious headway on its low-cost, mobile inside out VR controller tracking standard first seen back in April. Google is currently accepting applications for developer kits of the experimental Daydream 6DoF controllers, although only in the United States at this time. Photo by Road to VR.

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MARCH 26, 2019

Yesterday for the first time I have attended the Vive Ecosystem Conference in Shenzhen, China! The conference has begun with the classical inspiring keynote held by Mister President Alvin Wang Graylin. The post VEC 2019 – All the most important news from the Vive Ecosystem Conference appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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MAY 24, 2019

Google seems to be taking somewhat of a step back from VR, as Variety reports the company will be shutting down its Jump program for good next month. Google posted an updated Jump FAQ recently regarding the shutdown of the VR video service, outlining that Jump will officially go offline on June 28th, 2019.

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AUGUST 1, 2020

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

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MAY 17, 2017

Looks like the rumors are true; Google just announced it’s working on its very own standalone VR headsets at its I/O conference. Google’s VP of VR Clay Bavor introduced this new initiative towards the end of the conference. Meet WorldSense. Both are set to come to market towards the end of this year.

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APRIL 28, 2018

But we could see that change in the near future, thanks to research from Google which details a system for low-cost, mobile inside out VR controller tracking. Google’s approach effectively aims to infer the position of the controller by looking at the users arms and hands, instead of glowing markers. Image courtesy Google.

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JULY 20, 2020

(Image by Oculus). Oculus could be starting the production of a new Quest at the end of July. Multiple reports seem to confirm that Oculus is actually starting the production of a new Oculus Quest headset, with an expected release date in 2021. Google’s investment for a 7.7% of units more produced annually.

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MAY 11, 2018

If you’re waiting on positionally-tracked controllers for Google’s latest entry into the Daydream platform, the standalone 6DOF VR headset Lenovo Mirage Solo, you probably won’t ever see it, at least not from Google. Again, VR, [AR], immersive computing all being about vastly richer input and output.”

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Oculus announced at Connect, the company’s annual developer conference, that they’ll be officially supporting WebVR through their new VR web browser codenamed Carmel. ” SEE ALSO Google is Adding a VR Shell to Chrome to Let You Browse the Entire Web in VR. no long downloads or installs necessary).

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JULY 23, 2024

Two short years ago, Quest’s content store was simply called ‘Oculus’, making for one of the last holdouts of Oculus branding after Facebook rebranded to Meta in 2021. The mobile app eventually got the rebrand too, renaming it from ‘Oculus’ to ‘Meta Quest’ in August 2022.

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MARCH 8, 2021

Alex Kipman promised us a Microsoft Ignite conference with an amazing level of immersion , and he kept his word. This is also confirmed by the Wired article, where the journalist states that he has been able to see the conference in preview before the general audience. Google stops selling Cardboard viewers. Image by OceanX).

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

In the end, the time has come: Oculus has officially revealed the name and the price of the Santa Cruz headset. Its name will be Oculus Quest and will cost $399. I followed today’s OC5 conference via Facebook streaming only for this moment and Oculus has not disappointed my expectations.

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APRIL 24, 2018

Oculus Go is an upcoming standalone VR headset and controller that offers the same content library and a similar experience to Gear VR, but in a dedicated unit rather than a ‘headset shell’ accessory for a smartphone. What is Oculus Go? Want to know what it’s like to use Oculus Go? What Are the Oculus Go Specs?

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2017

At Oculus Connect, the company’s annual developer conference, we got fresh insight into where Oculus is heading, and a new look at how Facebook’s money is funding battles on all fronts of the industry’s increasingly competitive landscape. Oculus Rift + Touch Price Cuts in 2017. Old Enemies – HTC.

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MAY 2, 2018

Oculus Go , the company’s $200 standalone VR headset, launched at Facebook’s F8 developer conference yesterday to much fanfare—likely because everyone in attendance got one free. Oculus Go is rated for a 2 to 2.5

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2018

At Oculus Connect 5 , Oculus has announced Casting, an amazing feature that lets you stream the content of an Oculus Go to a smartphone. How to use Casting to stream Oculus Go content to your smartphone. Follow my guide on how to update your Oculus Go until you can select the “Cast” option).

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APRIL 30, 2018

In this article we compare three standalone VR devices which will be available worldwide this year: the Oculus Go, Lenovo Mirage Solo, and HTC Vive Focus. Oculus Go – Value Oriented. Image courtesy Oculus. At $200, the Oculus Go is set to be the most affordable device of the three by a significant margin.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Google is set to debut their Daydream platform, Oculus is hosting their third annual developer conference and Sony will finally release their PlayStation VR headset. 20th Century Fox, Disney, NBC Universal and DreamWorks for a two-day conference at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles.

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MAY 1, 2018

These apps hope to make the Oculus Go your next entertainment device. The $200 standalone VR headset from Oculus has finally arrived. the Oculus Go is part of Oculus’ larger goal to getting one billion consumers into VR. With Oculus Go, iPhone users around the world can now finally jump into VR with something comparable.

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

The Vive Focus was most probably the best VR standalone on the market when Oculus last week announced what will be the first consumer 6DOF VR standalone headset. And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. And now the battle is on standalone headsets: Oculus Quest vs Vive Focus.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

At last year’s Oculus Connect developer conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg came out at the start of the keynote speech for a brief few words. He was bullish about VR’s progress in the few years since Facebook purchased Oculus. This was far from all the Facebook CEO had to talk about at Oculus Connect 3.

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MARCH 15, 2018

The standalone headset is set to compete with the likes of the Oculus Go and Pico Neo. The Mirage Solo is a standalone headset (meaning it has everything on board for VR, and doesn’t rely on a docked smartphone or host PC), and it’s based on Google’s ‘Daydream’ Android VR ecosystem.

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APRIL 17, 2019

Already own a copy of Google’s VR creation tool Tilt Brush (2016) from the Oculus Store? Then you’ll be able to hop right into the company’s intuitive painting app with Oculus Quest, the upcoming standalone VR headset. “Most of our work porting Tilt Brush to Quest focused on performance improvements. .

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. With a lot of sadness, I’m here watching the photos and the videos of WCVRI , the big Chinese conference about VR that is held every year in Nanchang. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well.

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MAY 21, 2017

At Google I/O 2017 developer conference this week, the company announced a standalone Daydream VR headset in partnership with Qualcomm , with Lenovo and HTC slated to release commercial versions later this year. Google also shared a small tidbit: Developers have built “more than 150 apps” for Daydream so far.

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MAY 17, 2017

Google today confirmed what we’ve long suspected; Samsung’s new Galaxy S8 smartphone will soon support Google’s Daydream mobile VR ecosystem. The news was announced on-stage at the Google I/O developer conference today. Since then Oculus and Samsung have released multiple iterations of the headset.

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

Before Oculus can have its three days of fun later this week, Google will be getting its time in the spotlight at its own Made By Google press conference in San Francisco tomorrow. Namely, it’s time to learn a lot more about Google Daydream. Namely, it’s time to learn a lot more about Google Daydream.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

When Oculus first revealed its prototype standalone VR headset, code-named Santa Cruz, back in 2016, we all new a response from HTC was inevitable. Earlier this year those suspicions were proven correct when HTC as well as Lenovo announced their own upcoming versions of standalone VR hardware at the Google I/O Conference.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Today during the Vive Developers Conference in Beijing, HTC revealed the Vive Focus, a standalone VR headset with inside-out positional tracking. Original Article, Updated (11/13/17): Vive Focus is the name of the standalone mobile VR headset which was initially teased way back at Google I/O 2017 in May.

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AR Insider

APRIL 7, 2021

That could be wayfinding with Google Live View , or visual search with Google Lens. As you can tell from the above examples, Google will have a key stake in this “Internet of Places.” Synthesizing these factors, one of AR’s battlegrounds will be in augmenting the world in location-relevant ways. Network Effects.

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JUNE 10, 2017

Apple and Google beat the billionaire social media magnate to creating the smartphone — the dominant platform underpinning the Facebook network. Companies like Google and Apple have done that instead. Just hours before Facebook’s developer conference, Snapchat announced a major VR initiative: 3D lenses for use inside its messaging app.

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MARCH 19, 2021

We’ve estimated that its annual XR R&D spend — not including its $2 billion Oculus acquisition — approaches $10 billion. That includes both AR and VR, the latter being more tangible today, given Oculus’ in-market status. It’s playing a long game and is firmly committed. foveated rendering).

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

A survey of game developers attending the annual GDC conference suggests major growth in the number of developers building games for AR and VR headsets. The 2017 GDC State of the Game Industry report, which gathered data from 4,500 attendees of the annual GDC conference, has been published.

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MARCH 11, 2020

COVID-19 claimed yet another victim this morning as E3 event organizers Entertainment Software Association announced the cancellation of this year’s conference due to fears of a potential coronavirus outbreak. . Organizers hope to provide an ‘online experience’ this June. COVID-19 a.k.a. Coronavirus.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Jim Chabin, President of the Advanced Imaging and VR Societies, explained that the latest edition of the conference has expanded to match the explosive growth of immersive technologies as a whole. Discount tickets are available for Oculus Connect 4 attendees, all entertainment guild members, students (with ID), and seniors (62+).

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OCTOBER 5, 2018

Powered by VR, The Wild’s cross-platform 3D design platform works much like Google Docs. Founded by Gabe Paez, The Wild seeks to do what Google Docs does for collaborative word processing, but instead of fulfilling the role of an organizational tool, this app is meant to serve more creative purposes. . Image Credit: The Wild.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

The first Daydream headset’s price may have been revealed just ahead of today’s Made By Google conference, and it looks like it could literally give Samsung a run for its money. The site also suggests that Google’s Daydream headset could actually be made by HTC.

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